Where does “mese” come from?

mese (Middle English) comes from Old English mēse, from Latin mēnsa, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mese (Middle English): moss

Definitions

  1. moss

Ancestry of “mese”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishmēse—
2Latinmēnsaa table
3Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “mese”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →